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We present a dynamical log-stable process for the spatio-temporal evolution of the energy-dissipation field in fully developed turbulence. The process is constructed from multifractal scaling relations required for two-point correlators of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Schmiegel , M. Greiner

We present a mechanism for thermalizing a moving particle by microscopic deterministic scattering. As an example, we consider the periodic Lorentz gas. We modify the collision rules by including energy transfer between particle and…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Klages , K. Rateitschak , G. Nicolis

The time evolution of thermal and thermo-reactive instabilities of primordial gas in the presence of ionizing UV radiation is studied. We obtain conditions (depending on density, temperature, and UV radiation intensity) favorable for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan P. Muecket , Ronald E. Kates

We study the long time evolution and stationary speed distribution of N point particles in 2D moving under the action of an external field E, and undergoing elastic collisions with either a fixed periodic array of convex scatterers, or with…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-30 Federico Bonetto , Nikolai Chernov , Alexey Korepanov , Joel Lebowitz

We investigate thermal avalanche dynamics in amorphous solids using elastoplastic models with local activation rules and no external driving. Dynamical heterogeneities, quantified through persistence measurements and the associated…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-26 Gieberth Rodriguez-Lopez , Ezequiel E. Ferrero

The approach of nonequilibrium evolution thermodynamics earlier offered is developed. It helps to describe the processes of defect formation within the adiabatic approximation. The basic equations system depends on the initial defects…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-23 A. V. Khomenko , D. S. Troshchenko , L. S. Metlov

We introduce a class of convex, higher-dimensional billiard models which generalise stadium billiards. These models correspond to the free motion of a point-particle in a region bounded by cylinders cut by planes. They are motivated by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-07 Thomas Gilbert , David P. Sanders

We present several numerical results on granular mixtures. In particular, we examine the efficiency of diffusion as a mixing mechanism in these systems. The collisions are inelastic and to compensate the energy loss, we thermalize the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Henrique , G. Batrouni , D. Bideau

The seminal physical model for investigating formulations of nonlinear dynamics is the billiard. Gravitational billiards provide an experimentally accessible arena for their investigation. We present a mathematical model that captures the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-19 Alexandre E. Hartl , Bruce N. Miller , Andre P. Mazzoleni

The equilibration of sinusoidally modulated distribution of the kinetic temperature is analyzed in the $\beta$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou chain with different degrees of nonlinearity and for different wavelengths of temperature modulation.…

We study the stochastic dynamics of a particle with two distinct motility states. Each one is characterized by two parameters: one represents the average speed and the other represents the persistence quantifying the tendency to maintain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-16 M. Reza Shaebani , Heiko Rieger

This paper compares theory and experiment for the kinetics of time-dependent sedimentation. We discuss non-interacting suspensions and colloids which may exhibit behavior similar to the one-dimensional motion of compressible gas. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Sergei E. Esipov

We study the stationary nonequilibrium states of N point particles moving under the influence of an electric field E among fixed obstacles (discs) in a two dimensional torus. The total kinetic energy of the system is kept constant through a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Bonetto , D. Daems , J. L. Lebowitz , V. Ricci

This paper is a contribution to the understanding of the thermal properties of aging systems where statistically independent degrees of freedom with largely separated timescales are expected to coexist. Focusing on the prototypical case of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Federico Corberi , Giuseppe Gonnella , Antonio Piscitelli

We study a class of growth processes in which clusters evolve via exchange of particles. We show that depending on the rate of exchange there are three possibilities: I) Growth: Clusters grow indefinitely; II) Gelation: All mass is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

A thermodynamically consistent particle-based model for fluid dynamics with continuous velocities and a non-ideal equation of state is presented. Excluded volume interactions are modeled by means of biased stochastic multiparticle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Ihle , Erkan Tuzel , Daniel M. Kroll

Quantum statistical correlations and momentum distributions are calculated for a spherically symmetric, three-dimensionally expanding finite fireballs, for non-relativistic expansions applying plane-wave approximation. The new concepts of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 T. Csorgo B. Lorstad , J. Zimanyi

Statistical mechanics of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is studied by means of analytical and numerical techniques. The lower bound of the Hamiltonian permits the construction of standard Gibbsian equilibrium measures for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Ø. Rasmussen , T. Cretegny , P. G. Kevrekidis , N. Grønbech-Jensen

We prove approach to thermal equilibrium for the fully Hamiltonian dynamics of a dynamical Lorentz gas, by which we mean an ensemble of particles moving through a $d$-dimensional array of fixed soft scatterers that each possess an internal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. De Bievre , P. E. Parris

This paper is about the dynamics of non-diffusive temperature fronts evolving by the incompressible viscous Boussinesq system in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We provide local in time existence results for initial data of arbitrary size. Furthermore, we…

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